As more and more people experience complications, sometimes serious, after consuming food supplements, slimming products or aphrodisiacs purchased on the Internet, health authorities are sounding the alarm.
Indeed, as
Le Parisien
reports on Tuesday, many contain, without mentioning it, dangerous drugs.
We are talking about “adulterated products” explained to our colleagues Juliette Bloch, the director of alerts at ANSES, the national health security agency.
Capsules, supposedly natural, but which actually contain powerful appetite suppressants or molecules against erectile dysfunction.
Drugs sometimes even banned in France and Europe.
"There are very regularly patients poisoned by these products which they take without their knowledge", specifies Juliette Bloch.
“A real public health issue”
And the consequences can be dramatic.
While some only presented with intestinal pain or palpitations, others encountered more serious complications.
Like this 36-year-old man who suffered penile necrosis, or another 28-year-old who had to be hospitalized in a worrying state.
The lawyer for one of the victims asked that the question of the regulation of these products sold on the Internet and on social networks be put back on the agenda.
“It is a real public health issue” quote our colleagues.
Indeed, no regulation regulates the mention "natural product", so that the director of ANSES reminds that one should not buy miracle products on the Internet, but rather go to his doctor.
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